James Salter Quotes

Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.

James Salter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 10, 1925 - June 19, 2015

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BestBrotherParentsSisterYouMay

I have a concentrated period of work for about five months, and then I take a bunch of time off. That's just the way I work.

Joe Mantello

WorkTimeWayTakeOffJust

In the past, I used to rely on the randomness of working with samples, which was a good way because it threw you in a completely different direction. You just thought, 'What if I take this samba drum and combined it with an '80s synth line or something from this record?'

Jens Lekman

GoodPastDirectionThoughtYouWay

There was no convincing me that a stepmother could be anything but a wicked ogre, and I acted accordingly.

John Garfield

MeWickedAnythingStepmotherCould

I hate doing photo shoots.

Megan Fox

HateDoingPhotoPhoto ShootsShoots

If there is one thing you can count on in your life, it's that your path will not always be easy.

Tony Evans

LifePathEasyYouWillCount

I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

Denise Mina

MenSchoolPeopleWarriorDownEven

Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.

Claire Tomalin

ChangeWomenPastPictureTraffic

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

Anthony Trollope

LoveNeverMineYourAppetiteDoes

The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal.

Atul Gawande

HeartBrainSurviveBodyBloodDays

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Peace Pilgrim

PowerSpeakTongueLostMustBefore

Ours was not a normal or easy life.

Justin Trudeau

LifeEasyNormalOurs

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

Erin Gruwell

EmpathyWritingWayThingsFewVery

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